Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.
It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.
I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.
the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.